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A Pakistani government minister Monday blamed bordering Afghanistan’s ruling Islamist Taliban for placing checks on women, denouncing the checks as”retrogressive thinking” and as posing trouble to his country.
Information Minister Fawad Hussain, while speaking to an Islamabad gathering, described the new Taliban government in Kabul as an “ revolutionist governance.”
“ We want to completely help the people of Afghanistan. But saying that women ca n’t travel alone or go to seminaries and sodalities — this kind of a retrogressive thinking is a trouble to Pakistan,” Hussain said.
It’s extremely rare for Pakistani officers to intimately condemn the Taliban who have returned to power in Afghanistan, allegedly with the covert support of Pakistan’s military — charges Islamabad denies.
Hussain spoke a day after the Taliban Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice issued a new directive for women, limiting their capability to travel further than 72 kilometers unless accompanied by a close joker relative. It also advised hack motorists in Afghanistan to offer lifts only to women wearing an Islamic hijab or a headscarf.
Ministry spokesperson Sadiq Akif Mahajer defended the restrictions, telling VOA they were in line with Sharia, or Islamic law.
The rearmost restrictions come weeks after the Taliban asked Afghan TV channels to stop showing dramatizations and cleaner operas featuring actresses and to bear womanish news anchors to wear hijabs while on the air.
The Taliban militarily recaptured control of Afghanistan in August as the Western- backed Afghan government and its security forces collapsed in the final stages of the pullout by theU.S.- led transnational forces from the country.
The Islamist movement has since averted most Afghan women from returning to work and pixies from continuing classes across numerous businesses, despite pledging a more moderate rule compared with their harsh governance from 1996 to 2001.
No country has honored the Taliban government, and the global community is refusing to directly engage with Kabul over mortal rights and terrorism enterprises, indeed as Afghan philanthropic requirements have risen to record situations.
The United Nations estimates nearly 23 million
Last week, Pakistan hosted an exigency conference of Islamic countries, withU.S, Russian, Chinese, and European envoys in attendance, to rally increased philanthropic backing for Afghans. Islamabad has also dispatched scores of exchanges carrying food and drugs to the conflict- hit country since the Taliban preemption inmid-August.
Islamabad is bothered the worsening Afghan philanthropic and profitable extremity could shoot further deportees to Pakistan and others bordering countries.
Pakistani leaders have constantly prompted the Taliban to hear to and address transnational enterprises about rights of Afghan women, fighting terrorism and governing the country collectively.
The Taliban, still, dismiss review of their government and polices as hindrance in internal Afghan affairs, saying they’re ruling the country within the frame of Sharia.
Taliban principal spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid, in a recent media interview, defended his group’s interpretation of Islamic laws and condemned governance systems in Muslim countries, including Pakistan, asun-Islamic.
